As many of you are aware, Ducatijim and I are taking 2 months out and covering a fair bit of Oz on a couple of thoroughly modified and prepared DR 650's. We handed the bikes off to the freight company today and with luck will be wheeling north out of Brisbane about May 9th.
Now, the plan is where practical, to use the 4WD tracks rather than the main drags. This means that of necessity we are travelling light i.e. no laptop. It also means that the main centres visited will be few and far between i.e. few internet cafes. In summary, a running trip report is just not possible. However we are photographically well prepared and so can arrange something reasonably comprehensive when we get back home.
Anyway, so that we can scream for help if it is ever necessary, we will have a satphone (and possibly emergency beacons for the desert stages later on).
It turns out that texting on the satphone is not overly expensive and so we plan to read our coordinates off the GPS each evening and text them home to our wives who can then plug them into Google earth and so see exactly where we are.
If there is enough interest, my good lady would be happy to post those coordinates, either here or on ADVrider, or even both.
So tell me, is this a good idea or a complete waste of time?
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Originally Posted by Bass
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but as both an adventure biker, and also a fulltime professional photographer for 20 years, there's a few things you may not have taken into consideration re documenting your trip.
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